On Dec 31, 2:43 am, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 12/30/2011 4:23 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIuF5DcsbKU > > > The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D > > computer animation which holds that when human replicas look and act > > almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a > > response of revulsion among human observers. The valley in question > > is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a > > function of a robot s human likeness. > > >http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Mori_Uncanny_Valle... > > > Shouldn't our computation be pleased with the idea of being exported > > out of it's slow and error prone flesh? > > The valley occurs because something that looks and acts almost, but not > exactly like a > normal human being is also something that acts like a sick or psychotic or > otherwise > strange human being. Like a human being pretending to be a different human > being - which > is a danger sign. It's just generalized xenophobia.
But what is the computational justification for xenophobia? Why does novel or unconventional computation = 'strange' rather than 'wonderful variation'? Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
